succade

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

  1. noun fruit cooked in sugar syrup and encrusted with a sugar crystals

Etymology

From Middle English socade, from Middle French succade (“sweet candied fruit”), sucrade, from Old Occitan sucrado (“sweet, sugary, sugared”), from past participle of sucra (“to sugar”), from sucre (“sugar”), from Old Italian zucchero. (See zucchero for additional etymology.)

In classic literature

Synonyms

candied fruit, crystallized fruit

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